Sistory Untold

It's rare to come across a dynasty that was ruled entirely by women, but we were lucky enough to find one for this episode!  Asma Bint Shihab al-Sulayhi and Arwa al-Sulayhi ruled Yemen alongside and often in place of their husbands, the king. Asma was Arwa's cousin, mentor, teacher, mother-in-law and guardian. In other words, she was the best big sister a queen-to-be could ask for. 

We hope you enjoy our first episode of season two as we learn about the Fatimid caliphate of the medieval Middle East and North Africa, discuss the role of women in medieval Arab culture, and, as always, explore history through the eyes of sisterhood!

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In this bonus episode, we speak with A’Lelia Bundles, the great-great-granddaughter of Madame C.J. Walker and author of “On Her Own Ground,” the basis for Netflix’s limited series “Self-Made.” We talk with her about Madame C.J. Walker’s relationships with other women, and the line between fiction and reality. We hope you enjoy! To learn more about Madame C.J. Walker and about how A’Lelia is preserving her legacy, go to aleliabundles.com. For more information on Sistory Untold and this episode check out our Instagram and twitter @sistoryuntold or visit our website sistoryuntold.com!

This episode is a Sistory Untold first! We are talking about three fictional women: Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia in William Shakespeare's beloved tragedy, King Lear. The older sisters in this play are often portrayed as pure evil, but is that the case? We talk about that and so much more in this episode! We also talk about the legend that inspired Shakespeare's play, and compare the way these women were represented in each version of the story. And, because this is a history podcast after all, we bombard you with a bunch of random (but interesting!) facts about women in Elizabethan England. 

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In this episode we are covering the tragic lives of the two women who are often considered the "last Tasmanians". They survived torture and genocide and also managed to live really interesting and remarkable lives. From out law gangs to music and theatre these two women have seen and done it all. We hope you will enjoy this episode as we take a peak in to an ancient indigenous culture that with out the strength of these women and several others would be lost to us today. 

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In this episode, we are talking about Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, two American-based anarchafeminists who stood up to women’s rights and really stuck it to the man in the late 19th and early 20th century. Although they didn’t always see eye to eye, they often supported and praised each other and for a while wrote for the same publication. Chronic illness, imprisonment, poverty, and even assassination attempts couldn’t hold these women back. We hope you love this episode as much as we loved recording it!

Trigger warning: this episode contains themes of sexual assault and suicide.

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Here’s part two of our interview with Gemma Hollman, the author of Royal Witches. Today we are talking about Eleanor Cobham and Joan of Navarre. We hope you enjoy, and wish you a happy Halloween!

In part one of this two-part Halloween special, we speak with author Gemma Hollman about her book “Royal Witches.” We’ll revisit some familiar women— Jacquetta and Elizabeth Woodville— who you can learn more about in our Medieval Queens series that came out earlier this season! We’ll specifically talk about their accusations of witchcraft and how being a powerful woman can sometimes be a woman’s greatest weakness.

This is the conclusion to last weeks episode about the German WWII pilots Melitta Von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch. In this rollercoaster of emotions episode we find out how the war ends for Melitta and Hanna and discuss how the choices they made impacted their legacy. If you haven't already listened to part one we highly recommend you start there and then join us for the dramatic conclusion. 

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This week we are talking about a different kind of sistory. In our most modern episode yet we talk about the female World War II German pilots Melitta Von Stauffenberg and Hanna Reitsch. Although these women could not be more different from each other their life paths would take them in similar directions and the would face the decision to do what they thought was right for Germany or to do what was right for humanity. Based off of the book The Women Who Flew for Hitler, we look in to the lives and life choices of these two remarkable women. 

Thank you to Clare Mulley who wrote the fascinating book that lead us to this research and to our fellow podcasters at Hashtag History for guiding up on our technical podcast journey. 

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